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Different, strange a monster, a freak'

Were you ever called this at school and ever thought you were..

I have, and for a curse which I never wanted. The teachers and 'helpers' called it a 'mental problem'. Tell me have you ever heard of a mental problem which spurts a violent demon to grow, one with fangs and blood lust, my friends know what I truly am but even they have a glimpse of understanding, I do too.
Its called the blood rage, a curse given to all children of the salinskare coven. A coven of vampires, each one more bloody than the rest as the genetic 'fault' gets stronger and stronger, more animal than human, im one of the unlucky few to have this curse.

It is the year 2095 and the world has given birth to the vampires, there are 4 main clans and several thousand rouge or mercenary clans, the rouge clans are only ever heard of in the legend of before, each one leaving earth to find other planets to colonise.
Heh im probably making no sense whatsoever, let me start at the beginning. When the planets in our solar system were finally researched by satalites and space men, at the end of 2035, the scientists attempted to terraform the planets for new minerals and cities for humans to exist on. The attempts were all failures as the plaents harsh wilderness only destroyed the stations. The only planet that was terraformed successfully was mars, but the uac (the main research development centre on terra 'earth') incident occurred and now it's a dead planet, but that's another story.
Another means to colonise planets was called 'the ether', this was a new form of super virus but it was designed in order to harness the human organs and body so that it adapted to a new climate, there were experiments made and each one was a rousing success, people were even sent to Pluto and they lived happily, the freezing tempretures not even making them flinch, and the scientists made a global vaccination policy, and every person was given the ether.
Little did they know that there was a drawback. The ether although harnessing the body, gave the humans a new form of life by eating the human cells and replacing them with the new virus. The cells even remade the dna makeup and an extra code was added.
Within three months of the virus being given out, everyone became blood thirsty superhumans, father at sons throat, mother at daughters, siblings at siblings. The streets ran a deep red pool of blood. Each vampire joined a gang, the most memorable of them is the coven I am part of, they were called the angels of st paul, most of them were of Russian birth (hence the now Russian name). some of the original members are still leading the coven.
Back to the point, the numbers of vampires began to dwindle, hundreds of vampires dead every passing day. Until the elders came.
The elders are the oldest of all vampires and they brooked a peace between the gangs, allied gangs became large covens. Now named the valin, the bardk, the srton, and the salinskare. Each coven had its own form of roles in this new empire of the elders.

The valin are the aristocrats, these are lead by the elders, and are used to form councils to make decisions about all the imperium, they used to be just but now they are fat oafs who care not for the welfare of other clans.
The bardk are the old scientists and make the weapons and starships for all the clans. This clan keeps themselves to themselves, but are willing to help the welfare of their brothers as they want the vampires to live on, they have even learnt of the ways of cloning blood cells from old tissues, so now we have an infinite source of blood to sate our thirst.
The srton are the vampires of the stars, flying the ships to and fro from planet to planet, they barely touch the ground with their feet and are paranoid of other vampires, but will never stoop themselves so low as to wrong their brothers of blood.
And finally the salinskare.
We are the vampires who live to battle, we are few in number, as the salinskares blood rage often leaves the vampire a crippled husk of a man or woman. But those who survive become the elite warriors of the clans, we are usually on the forefront of any battle against them.

Them are a old race of humans that we forgot about during the chaos before the elders. The humans developed an unnatural gene, the humans called it the fury of god as they are a dogmatic race. It gives them an inability to feel pain but again this gene has a drawback, the humans turn into raving lunatics and fight any and all lifeforms they come across , raiding the stars in their polluted starships and pillaging our colonies. They call themselves pilgrims, we call them targets.